NIGEL FARAGE has poked fun at scare-mongering Remainers for claiming Britain would fall off an economic cliff post-Brexit, as official figures show unemployment is at its lowest level for 11 years.

The anti-EU politician was beaming on Wednesday evening after data from the Office of National Statistics showed the employment rate now stands at 74.5 per cent, the joint highest figure since comparable records began in 1971.

Speaking to Fox Business, Mr Farage said Britain was booming after voting to leave the European Union, with housebuilding being at near record levels and growth also being on the rise.

The Brexit-architect told Lou Dobbs: “I have got the unemployment figures which show that despite all the complaints and all the moaning… this idea that after a vote for Brexit we’d fall off a cliff is absolutely, complete rubbish.”

Mr Farage, who is acting as Ukip interim leader, also told Dobbs the success was reward enough for him after his long crusade to get Britain out of the red-tape obsessed bloc.

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Mr Farage beamed as official figures showed unemployment is at its lowest level for 11 years

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He said: “We had Remain voters protesting in the streets of London, Remoaners as we call them, and I have a feeling they are the very same people that were flown to New York to protest outside the Trump Tower the other day.

“We were told terrible things would happen to us and actually, unemployment is coming down, growth is going up, new housebuilding is at near record levels manufacturing figures are good, the stock market is relatively strong.”

“That is reward enough for me.”

The ONS figures showed there are now 31.8 million people in work, 49,000 more than in June 2016.